Very Spatial Wishes 20 December 2010 Diederik-Krols Spatial, SQL Server Last year I encountered this T-SQL script on a MSDN Forum. Run it in SQL Management Studio (not Visual Studio!), and select 'Spatial Results': -- Original Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlspatial/thread/d52c686e-30cc-4ae0-bdc7-ae4a2536cd64 -- Prepare the scene CREAT... [More]
Azure Inter-role communication using callback instead of queues 20 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WCF, VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently playing with Azure and the Azure training kit, and I learned something cool today. When you work with Azure you can setup multiple worker roles for your Azure application. If you want to make these roles talk to one another you can use the queuing mechanism which is part of Azure. But ... [More]
Using reporting services with Oracle package / stored procedure 16 December 2010 Nico-Jacobs SQL Server BI, Reporting Services Reporting services can create data sets on top of Oracle stored procedures. Sure, the manual says so, but this afternoon, I tried to get things up and running, and I want to share some of the dead ends and problems I experienced in that, maybe it can help you avoid these obstacles. Don’t panic, not ... [More]
A fistful of Entity Framework 4.0 Tips 16 December 2010 Diederik-Krols Entity Framework 4.0, SQL Server This article presents some useful tips for building the data access layer of an enterprise application on top of Entity Framework 4.0 (EF40). For those who can't wait, here they are: 1. Only project the columns you really need, 2. Stay away from the Include syntax, 3. Consider alternatives, 4. But ... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available 11 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 For those really on the edge people, the beta of SP1 for VS2010 is available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=11ea69cb-cf12-4842-a3d7-b32a1e5642e2&displaylang=en
Farewell Visitor 01 December 2010 Kris-Vandermotten .NET The Visitor design pattern was first documented in 1995 by the Gang of Four. It’s a workaround for the fact that most strongly typed object oriented languages only support single dispatch, even when sometimes double dispatch is required. With C# 4, we no longer need this workaround. We now have some... [More]